Enya

With her blend of folk melodies, synthesized backdrops, and classical motifs, Enya created a distinctive style that more closely resembled new age than the folk and Celtic music that provided her initial influences. Enya is from Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland, which she left in 1980 to join the Irish band Clannad, the group that already featured her older brothers and sisters. She stayed with Clannad for two years, then left, hooking up with producer Nicky Ryan and lyricist Roma Ryan, with whom she recorded film and television scores. The result was a successful album of TV music for the BBC. Enya then recorded Watermark (1988), which featured her distinctive, flowing music and multi-overdubbed trancelike singing; the album sold eight million copies worldwide. Watermark established Enya as an international star and launched a successful career that lasted well into the '90s.

Enya (born Eithne Ní Bhraonáin) was born into a musical family. Her father, Leo Brennan, was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band, a popular Irish show band; her mother was an amateur musician. Most important to Enya's career were her siblings, who formed Clannad in 1970 with several of their uncles. Enya joined the band as a keyboardist in 1980 and contributed to several of the group's popular television soundtracks. In 1982, she left Clannad, claiming that she was uninterested in following the pop direction the group had begun to pursue. Within a few years, she was commissioned, along with producer/arranger Nicky Ryan and lyricist Roma Ryan, to provide the score for a BBC-TV series called The Celts. The soundtrack was released in 1986 as her eponymous solo album.

Enya didn't receive much notice, but Enya and the Ryans' second effort, Watermark, became a surprise hit upon its release in 1988. Enya spent the years following the success of Watermark rather quietly; her most notable appearance was a cameo on Sinéad O'Connor's I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. She finally released Shepherd Moons, her follow-up to Watermark, in 1991. Shepherd Moons was even more successful than its predecessor, eventually selling over ten million copies worldwide; it entered the U.S. charts at number 17 and remained in the Top 200 for almost four years.

Again, Enya was slow to follow up on the success of Shepherd Moons, spending nearly four years working on her fourth album. The record, entitled Memory of Trees, was released in December 1995. Memory of Trees entered the U.S. charts at number nine and sold over two million copies within its first year of release. In 1997 came the release of a greatest-hits collection, Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya, which featured two new songs. Enya's first album of new material in five years, Day Without Rain, was released in late 2000. In 2002, she contributed material to the first film in Peter Jackson's award-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy, scoring a hit with the single "May It Be." Amarantine, her first full-length recording since Day Without Rain, followed in November 2005. A holiday EP, Christmas Secrets, arrived in 2006, followed by an all new, full-length collection of original seasonal music called And Winter Came in 2008. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine & William Ruhlmann, Rovi

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We’ve achieved enormously, but the historical process is still evolving and many are truly suffering. Sanguinely, as the Kingdom of God, of Heaven is actualized in our hearts & brought to full-fruition in our lives - we’ll ever-increasingly progress toward the Promised Land. Jesus & many avatars & sensitive souls have paved the way for us – “If love is the rule of my politics and the thrust of my action, yes, I really shall suffer less and I shall cause less suffering in others.” – Carlo Carrett

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I had the pleasure of meeting Enya guess it had to be close to 30 years ago, she was playing in the food court at Disney World in Orlando Fl. I was 25 healthy wealthy and I guess two out of three wasen't bad for a hippy/surfer/artist/sailor anyway I waited for her intermission and went up to her table and purchased her very first cassette tape and I do beleive she was hitting on me. Those little moments in life you wish you had done things a little different, or maybe a lot different!

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason. - Plotinus... At this point in one’s life path Essence/Presence begins to take hold in a change of heart as it inchoately develops & finally burgeons ad infinitum as in transubstantiation when the indwelling spirit comes to full-fruition of inner-realization in the soul nature... but there has to be balance -- all chakras, energy centers, working harmonically in concert, synchronism, in peak, flow experience.

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Don't read this because because it actually works. You will be kissed on the nearest Friday by the love of your life. Tomorrow will be the best day of your life however if you don't post this you will be injured (but you won't die) in two days. Now you started this so don't stop. Post this on at least five songs in the next 143 minutes when your done press f6 and your lovers name will appear on the screen in big letters. This is so scary because it actually works.

If there is a cause then you will find the day to greet the sun and fly away for no one can hold your heart while drifting along the stars to play so caste line and pull anchor from the bay throwing stern against the swale for your soul to dream as only angels have chance to say of journey's your heart wishes to lay setting sail for wonders to be and what mysteries you will see on display leaping in faith and living as you may believing hands are there ready to catch and you will always be saved

‘To be or not to be’ is the existential quest; however, unless there is meaning & purpose life becomes meaningless and there's an existential abyss, emptiness, & ultimate despair. Many people seem to be groping for the purpose-driven life but much too often there's nothing except a vacuum, an inept, inane caricature of what could be.

'The Greatest Commandment: Love God and Your Neighbour Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.' -- So much is in the balance - only the Holy Spirit can successfully intervene...

A night to be dreaming of loons in marsh quietly wading speak so the angels of blue moonlit evenings floating over cool mist with such vigor awaited to greet nature with passion belated while mingled airs bring lasses fair to swim in streams unclothed without care and under starless skies they play before unbidden eyes as thoughts drift by with times long gone for things envisioned in splendid song until hidden among seasoned hay farriers call out to give way as they sail past ending another day

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This investigator is in full acquiescence with Bucke or Teilhard / Aurobindo that Cosmic Consciousness - the Omega Point / Supermind or the Kingdom of Heaven, of God - is within each of us; so is, of course, satori, nirvana, samadhi, etc., and in the near future will inevitably become a cosmic sense in man as the self-conscious mind or plane is today universal in the human race...

Whoever did this first, this is my favorite Enya song. Would that she locked into this Gothic direction and stayed there. But then, Lisa Gerard would crush her easily if she did, lol! Both ladies rock though.

I love the dark, moody direction of this. It feels like a faint threat and is the most feminist song Enya has performed. Yet no words. Amazing eh? :D

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Which came first? The Fugee track or this one? Sounds similar. Ready or not, here I come. You can't hide.